About AD 792 the Vikings attacked Lindisfarne in northeast England.
Just over 2 years later, in about AD 1,000 when Leif Eriksson sailed to Labrador, Newfoundland Canada, he was recently converted to Christianity.
From memory. There is a lot more, however. The Swedish Norsemen went into and across Russia, Ukraine, to present day Turkey where they served as guards, for the Eastern Roman Empire.
Probbly Norwegian Norse raided on the Seine River to Paris, became the ruling class of "Normandy" province, and in 1066 crossed the English Channel, to conquer part of Britain, taking their adopted French language, civil government practices (derived from Roman era).
Near the same time, Norsemen took control of Southern Italy, parts of the eastern Mediterranean.
All that from a people that today number about 20 million.
There will be louder and louder voices from the left, arguing for the Scandinavian versions of "good socialism." (not the bad Cuban/North Korean/Venezuelan versions.
An intellectually curious person might want to know more about what makes these people prosper?
* They practice "mixed economy, like the US and Canada. Successful free market corporations fund high tech, autos, forestry products, retail, etc.
